Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ecb4d4d355174bed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.1 KB Created: 2021-09-16 11:32:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 04a891a9eb46cae4f0d01f79ffeab98d SHA-1: ce09294605cf1a702cf64434787e66de1fe1116e SHA-256: ecb4d4d355174bed62ad4fbd35de303b9d89816a60e443a25bfea0af70d44806
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The file's structure and URL patterns are consistent with a spearphishing attachment used to lure victims to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://cornucopiafrederick.com/uploads/files/mepekonigojebek.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chemicalengineers.ie/images/ziredinigiridudozadaxob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vhcvietnam.vn/ckeditor/images/files/zerizoveka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sahyadrisevasanstha.in/userfiles/file/47157645934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://titishop.co/upload/files/97866810722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzhero-sudzhensk.verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wiremikit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://towa-aaa.jp/userfiles/file/54381300190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/652f9b1fdec7d4d9c6bfeff5fbaac63a/pobipetudukivikana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jokilaaksonratsastajat.fi/file/9133780492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boldogelet.hu/media/369600783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210908135336187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelgaric.com/upload/datoteke/pibubut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edgecs.com/documents/ruliza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dainichiji.com/upload_ckr/files/88769954277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebrandstudio.com/userfiles/file/65661807976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagamimpi.com/contents/files/rufuputowagej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scmsgroup.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25556192988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guanzhuli.com/userfiles/file/92665012649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insightonafrica.in/userfiles/file/85917970792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614286d2450b3---22761252541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d9ac09e6b8---dumalejoxokujavag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelrefah4ter.ir/basefile/hotelrefah4terir/files/23666655133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biblioteka-belzec.pl/upload/files/maxividetusojajuvibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=sony+max+live+tv+for+android+mobilePDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00012529.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12529 20084 bytes
SHA-256: 2d2df40c626e65f8549c023d369426861e22d60e2bf4cd7792f59db91b2018b5
font_01_sfnt_off00015a25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A25 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001723c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1723C 10844 bytes
SHA-256: be83e0bce856619a04ff1485c768e0bf4e8a60c4f4bd0abcfd9d996abcbad46c